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Living is the original art. As a young man I wanted to be a poet and I learned along the way that I already was a poet.

Mark Nepo

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Mark Nepo
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: February 23
Poet
Brooklyn
New York
Young
Originals
Wanted
Original
Way
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Men
Along
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If I dare to hear you I will feel you like the sun And grow in your direction.
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We can never be prepared for everything. No one person can anticipate all of life. In fact, overpreparation is yet another way to wall ourselves in from life.
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I was a very driven person, wanting to help and to do good, hopefully to write and teach in a meaningful way - wanting to make change. And I discovered humbly that life was changing me.
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The real challenge is to remember to see clearly when everything's flying around us and we're wrapped up in our [emotional] wounds and traumas.
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When wiggling through a hole the world looks different than when scrubbed clean by the wiggle and looking back.
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We travel so far only to land where we are. We imagine other lives, only to meet who we are. We seek out love in special ways, only to find everyone is special. Humbly, we can't avoid this journey.
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We are love. But in an everyday setting we have to make choices. We have limits. We can love everyone and we can't love everyone.
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The mystery is that whoever shows up when we dare to give has exactly what we need hidden in their trouble.
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Our job is not to expose the mystery but to participate in it.
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Let's be in awe which doesn't mean anything but the courage to gape like fish at the surface breaking around our mouths as we meet the air.
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We need experience to release what matters.
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Even when clouds grow thick, the sun still pours its light earthward.
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The resource of life is everywhere, even in the smallest of things and we're never very far from it.
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The greedy one gathered all the cherries, while the simple one tasted all the cherries in one.
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I would rather be fooled than not believe.
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The sun doesn't stop shining because some people are blind.
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Each soul on earth is complete unto itself.
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We need to meet, embrace and work with what we're given. For what we want and what we're given often serve two different gods. And how we respond to their meeting determines our path.
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Those who truly love us will never knowingly ask us to be other than we are
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I would want to affirm how rare and magnificent and messy it is to be alive, how there is really nothing between us and life, though so many things get in the way, and how our heart is the strongest muscle and resource we have.
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